Word: lindberghism
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Eight years ago, as Charles A. Lindbergh peered at the lights of France through the periscope of his Spirit of St. Louis, he dreamed of a huge airliner which would some day span oceans on regular commercial schedule. Last week such an airliner, final fruition of Lindbergh's dream, soared up from San Francisco Bay, droned westward on the first flight of a regular commercial schedule across the Pacific Ocean...
...great flying ship was the China Clipper, largest type of plane yet built in the U. S. Glenn Luther Martin spent three years constructing it in his Baltimore factory from specifications laid down by Colonel Lindbergh. At the China Clipper wheel last week was a great if unspectacular pilot named Edwin C. Musick, whose eyes, after 11,000 hours in the air, have acquired a permanent squint from staring at distant horizons...
...OnIy other woman to fly the South Atlantic: Mrs. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, with her husband...
...long now before she makes her appearance with a pair of wings, not the feathery kind that grace Gabriel and his cohorts, nor the horn-leathery ones of the Land of the Eternal Fire, but rather the modern everyday type made famous by Birdman Lindbergh and Flying Post...
...consorting with the ex-Mayor had hired a dozen boats on which to welcome him home. The Press, always charmed by the slick little politician whose neat phrases helped them in making a living, was represented by a turn-out of reporters surpassed only by that given Charles Lindbergh and Edward of Wales. And, inexplicably, John J. Dunnigan, leader of the Democratic majority in the State Senate, calmly holding his political life in his hands, climbed aboard the Manhattan. It was he who took Jimmy Walker, natty as ever in a pinstriped, pinchback suit, out of the clutches...